'10 IL QB Tommy Rees (Notre Dame Man)

[notredomer23]

The Heisman campaign has begun!

 

[Old Man Mike]

In my opinion, Rees was extremely good. And, again in my opinion, if DD hadn't gotten his "inconvenient" groin pull, he would have continued his normal super-jock stride and had a TD hat trick. One more TD with all those yards makes Tommy's stats out-of-sight, and the score up seven more points. That is one of those "what-ifs" that's legit, as no one expects your star WR stud to pull a groin at just the wrong time.

Remediating that one play reduces Tommy's "poor passes" to about two for the entire game, and two ["a couple"] is what Coach mildly complained about too. Over-all he liked Tommy's game very much, and really liked the "distribution".

And I have a third annoying opinion: I believe that if the blocking wall was the same that there were at least two instances where Tommy made a quick competent read in the short/mid-range over the middle that Everett would not have clearly been able to see.

 

[aubeirish]

The Heisman campaign has begun!

+1

 

[IrishLax]

My only concern with Tommy is when he gets under duress. If we can keep a clean pocket all year (doubtful, but possible) he could put up gaudy numbers. Missed a couple throws... but had a lot of beauties and would've lit up the scoreboard if they let him keep going.

 

[phork]

I'm as happy as everyone else with the numbers. But lets pump the breaks a bit. It was Temple.

 

[IrishLax]

I'm as happy as everyone else with the numbers. But lets pump the breaks a bit. It was Temple.

The third best team Louisville plays all year.... sigh

 

[NDdomer2]

Tommy did what he was asked. read the d get us in a successful play. wasextremely accurate inside 15 yards. his misses on deeper throws were the kinds of misses you want. over thrown or ob. this could all be a grain of salt with it being temple but I'm personally more concerned about the run game. yes a couple of big gainers but thought our oline would have been able to create more 8 yard chunkers than they did.

 

[Butchie]

Let's be clear about one thing. Tommy will go as far as the run game takes him. If the ground game is consistent Tommy will be fine. If scUM's D-line starts blowing up Martin & the boys we will be three and out and the Gardner show will take off. A great mix of play calls and eating up yards and time on the ground spell victory for Reesus & Co. Sept. 7th & the rest of the season. Let's Go Irish!

 

[enrico514]

My only concern with Tommy is when he gets under duress. If we can keep a clean pocket all year (doubtful, but possible) he could put up gaudy numbers. Missed a couple throws... but had a lot of beauties and would've lit up the scoreboard if they let him keep going.

^ this

 

[WakeUpEchoes]

Was nominated for Capital One player of the week.

 

[DCirishfan]

Seriously after temple?

 

[irishff1014]

The good thing about almost all of his misses were that they were where our guys could only get it.

 

[magogian]

Reesus, Reesus, Reesus!

 

[yankeeND]

I thought Tommy played very well for week 1 and all of the criticism he has to put up with from our fan base on a day to day basis. He needs to clean up a few things but minus a few throws it was pretty clean. There was improvement on his throws and decisions he made. The touchdown pass to Niklas would have been intercepted like two years ago vs Pitt. The throw over the middle to TJ was exceptional. This week will show us a lot more but, I feel much more optimistic about how the season will go after this performance. TJ and DaVaris will make Tommy look great at times this year.

 

[chubler]

I felt like the coaches gave up on the play calling front at 21-6 tbh. From my vantage point it looked like temple had 10 guys on the LOS and a safety only 7-10 yards deep on lots of 2nd half 1st downs. I was dying for a deep pass but they clearly didn't care about the points. I doubt they'll be so forgiving if we get up that many on Michigan....

With that said, Tommy's passes looked so much better in terms of velocity, arc, and placement that I wondered who was really out there!

 

[koonja]

I felt like the coaches gave up on the play calling front at 21-6 tbh. From my vantage point it looked like temple had 10 guys on the LOS and a safety only 7-10 yards deep on lots of 2nd half 1st downs. I was dying for a deep pass but they clearly didn't care about the points. I doubt they'll be so forgiving if we get up that many on Michigan....

With that said, Tommy's passes looked so much better in terms of velocity, arc, and placement that I wondered who was really out there!

Were you at the game? Just wondering how he looked in person.

 

[pkt77242]

Seriously after temple?

Do you even have an optimistic or positive bone in your body? Has anything positive ever come out of your mouth (or been typed by your fingers) about ND?

 

[returnofthemack]

Do you even have an optimistic or positive bone in your body? Has anything positive ever come out of your mouth (or been typed by your fingers) about ND?

I'm pretty sure you can be optimistic and positive while not proclaiming Tommy Rees the 6th best QB in the country after some nice throws against Temple, most of which were after the WRs had torched their terrible coverage. Also, he barely got touched all day. If he plays close to this well against michigan, then the argument that he is a top 10 QB may have some merit.

 

[chubler]

Were you at the game? Just wondering how he looked in person.

I'm a sophomore at ND, I'm lucky enough this year to have season tickets to one of the best home slates in the country and Air Force as well!

And yes, the passes looked great in the stadium. I'm a big packers fan, and the velocity and arc on many of his throws were much like I'm used to seeing from Aaron Rodgers (disclaimer- that is in no way a comparison of them as qb's.) he looked like a legit top-flight passer against temple. Also, espn's breakdown was raving over his read of the coverage on the Niklas TD. So that's cool.

 

[jimmymac]

Were you at the game? Just wondering how he looked in person.

my observation on tommy is that on the fade type ball, the ball toward the sideline that he just lobs up, he is very accurate and feels completely comfortable. where tommy cannot make a strong pass is in the middle of the field. the only good pass i saw from him in the middle was the touchdown to troy, but other than that he missed some guys open in the middle.

 

[IrishFaninTX]

I'm pretty sure you can be optimistic and positive while not proclaiming Tommy Rees the 6th best QB in the country after some nice throws against Temple, most of which were after the WRs had torched their terrible coverage. Also, he barely got touched all day. If he plays close to this well against michigan, then the argument that he is a top 10 QB may have some merit.

Since stats matter to so many people, statistically, he was the 6th best QB. He had the 6th best QB rating of the week. I'm sure that won't last all year but missing only 7 throws against a weak opponent is still something to be excited about. And a couple were not his fault. 2 years ago, he played his worse against weak opponents (BC and Pitt come to mind). He always stepped up for the better opponents like Michigan and MSU.

 

[IrishFaninTX]

I'm as happy as everyone else with the numbers. But lets pump the breaks a bit. It was Temple.

Not saying he will play this way all year but having the 6th best QB rating is a good thing for Tommy. Even against some very bad opponents 2 years ago, I don't think he was in the top 25 passer rating-wise.

 

[IrishFaninTX]

I do have a question for the guys that are saying it was only Temple or have criticized Tommy in the post-game threads. If Golson had thrown 3 TD passes and passed for over 300 yards yesterday, would anyone be saying it was only Temple or would they be excited and saying Golson is going to have a monster year? Just curious because it seems when it comes to Tommy, even when he does everything almost perfect, he still isn't good enough.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

I've never been one to heap praise towards Tommy, but I agree, he killed it yesterday. There is no way you can take that away from him.

 

[returnofthemack]

I do have a question for the guys that are saying it was only Temple or have criticized Tommy in the post-game threads. If Golson had thrown 3 TD passes and passed for over 300 yards yesterday, would anyone be saying it was only Temple or would they be excited and saying Golson is going to have a monster year? Just curious because it seems when it comes to Tommy, even when he does everything almost perfect, he still isn't good enough.

I can only speak for myself, obviously, but if Golson had the same stats, I would be happy that he seemed to be on track against a crappy opponent, and hope that he could stay at that level against the good teams - basically exactly the same as it is for Rees. I don't like that Rees is our QB, but obviously I want him to play extremely well every game and lead ND to victory. It would not change my anxiety about our defensive weakness against a scrambling QB and the play-action.

 

[sharksamardzija8345]

I've never been one to heap praise towards Tommy, but I agree, he killed it yesterday. There is no way you can take that away from him.

I'm with you. I remember getting into some heated arguments with his biggest supporter (grandfather? uncle?) HereComeTheIrish lol.. but, I must say, I have all the confidence in the world in him.. quarterback is not our achilles heel.. that belongs to the middle linebackers and safeties.. well, I suppose you could make an argument for our kickers also, but TR is going to be one of bright spots all year

 

[DillonHall]

Since stats matter to so many people, statistically, he was the 6th best QB. He had the 6th best QB rating of the week. I'm sure that won't last all year but missing only 7 throws against a weak opponent is still something to be excited about. And a couple were not his fault. 2 years ago, he played his worse against weak opponents (BC and Pitt come to mind). He always stepped up for the better opponents like Michigan and MSU.

I didn't realize stats mattered to that many people. Stats in college sports are typically meaningless (at least to me) since every team's schedule is so different.

 

[dublinirish]

The Heisman campaign has begun!

Reesman Award you say?

 

[Irishnuke]

Do you even have an optimistic or positive bone in your body? Has anything positive ever come out of your mouth (or been typed by your fingers) about ND?

Has anything not douchey ever come out of yours?

 

[BangbangNDLarry]

Has anything not douchey ever come out of yours?

Now now lets play nice